Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,189 5,775 7,240
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.00% 23.22% 19.19%
As % of the General category 34.74% 36.09% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,218 3,865 5,032
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -4.26% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £704 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 106 245
10th Percentile £15.38 £17.80 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.33 £15.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% +2.79%
75th Percentile £54.06 £65.19 £38.12
90th Percentile £86.50 £77.95 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £39.06 £27.00
% change year-on-year -10.38% +44.65% -3.50%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,575 16,000 21,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.69% 64.33% 57.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,351 10,318 13,765
10th Percentile £313 £282 £282
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,646 770 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.34 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -12.51% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.70 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.52% -9.18% -0.07%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 19 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,897 £575 -4.17% 1,820
North of England +2 1,281 £495 +7.03% 592
South East 0 693 £500 -4.53% 849
North West +4 677 £465 +3.33% 320
Midlands 0 639 £500 +11.11% 368
Yorkshire 0 556 £525 +10.53% 208
West Midlands +1 463 £504 +0.75% 212
South West -3 381 £525 - 235
East of England +2 195 £513 -10.87% 173
East Midlands -1 169 £475 +11.76% 153
North East -17 49 £500 +13.64% 75
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 290 (3.54%) Confluence
2 199 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 80 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 62 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.55%) Apache
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 26 (0.32%) CMS
9 21 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.15%) Appian
11 12 (0.15%) Ethereum
11 12 (0.15%) IIS
12 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 10 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.073%) Hyperledger
14 6 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.061%) TPMS
15 5 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 451 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 175 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 155 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 147 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 99 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 54 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.061%) Sketch
9 4 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.049%) Trello
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.037%) Notion
10 3 (0.037%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.012%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 294 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 109 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 93 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 79 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 78 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
6 69 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
7 40 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 40 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
8 39 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
9 37 (0.45%) Aladdin
10 35 (0.43%) SAP FI
11 33 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
12 30 (0.37%) SAP CO
13 28 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 27 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
15 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
16 22 (0.27%) SAP ERP
17 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
18 19 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,309 (15.98%) Azure
2 950 (11.60%) AWS
3 565 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 415 (5.07%) GCP
5 286 (3.49%) SaaS
6 278 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 257 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 208 (2.54%) GitHub
9 186 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 161 (1.97%) Snowflake
11 156 (1.90%) Entra ID
12 135 (1.65%) Serverless
13 106 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 100 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 96 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 96 (1.17%) OCI
16 86 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
17 85 (1.04%) dbt
18 79 (0.96%) OpenShift
19 77 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 144 (1.76%) Firewall
2 124 (1.51%) Network Security
3 68 (0.83%) VPN
4 66 (0.81%) DNS
5 57 (0.70%) WAN
6 55 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 38 (0.46%) BGP
8 32 (0.39%) HTTP
8 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 32 (0.39%) SSL
9 29 (0.35%) DHCP
10 26 (0.32%) OSPF
11 25 (0.31%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 22 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (0.23%) VSAN
16 17 (0.21%) Internet
16 17 (0.21%) VLAN
17 16 (0.20%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (5.95%) Power BI
2 233 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 217 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 159 (1.94%) Metadata
6 141 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 127 (1.55%) Tableau
8 122 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 87 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 69 (0.84%) Big Data
12 60 (0.73%) Oracle Database
13 58 (0.71%) BigQuery
14 48 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 47 (0.57%) Power Query
16 44 (0.54%) Delta Lake
16 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 43 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
18 38 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 597 (7.29%) JIRA
2 200 (2.44%) Git
3 148 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 89 (1.09%) GitLab
5 54 (0.66%) JUnit
6 44 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.42%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 25 (0.31%) MLflow
9 25 (0.31%) Postman
9 25 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 21 (0.26%) ERwin
12 20 (0.24%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.23%) Maven
14 17 (0.21%) Zephyr
15 15 (0.18%) TeamCity
16 14 (0.17%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.17%) Gradle
16 14 (0.17%) Hudson
General
1 2,373 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 1,534 (18.73%) Banking
3 1,064 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 458 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 365 (4.46%) Legal
6 328 (4.01%) Financial Institution
7 317 (3.87%) Investment Banking
8 303 (3.70%) Front Office
9 272 (3.32%) Retail
10 269 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 201 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
12 197 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
13 158 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 140 (1.71%) Local Government
15 137 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 130 (1.59%) General Ledger
17 127 (1.55%) Law
18 125 (1.53%) Billing
19 121 (1.48%) Marketing
20 120 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,182 (14.43%) Analyst
2 925 (11.30%) Senior
3 863 (10.54%) Lead
4 838 (10.23%) Developer
5 784 (9.57%) Architect
6 633 (7.73%) Project Manager
7 592 (7.23%) Business Analyst
8 524 (6.40%) Consultant
9 320 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 284 (3.47%) Data Engineer
11 212 (2.59%) Senior Manager
12 192 (2.34%) Financial Analyst
13 174 (2.12%) Data Analyst
14 170 (2.08%) Accountant
14 170 (2.08%) Finance Manager
15 169 (2.06%) Java Developer
16 162 (1.98%) Software Engineer
17 158 (1.93%) Senior Developer
18 157 (1.92%) IT Manager
18 157 (1.92%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (3.05%) REST
2 247 (3.02%) .NET
3 243 (2.97%) React
4 229 (2.80%) Kafka
5 187 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 175 (2.14%) Middleware
7 148 (1.81%) Spring
8 145 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 121 (1.48%) RESTful
10 110 (1.34%) Redux
11 102 (1.25%) Node.js
11 102 (1.25%) PySpark
12 86 (1.05%) AngularJS
13 82 (1.00%) JSON
14 75 (0.92%) OAuth
15 70 (0.85%) XML
16 61 (0.74%) CSS
17 58 (0.71%) Pandas
18 55 (0.67%) HTML
18 55 (0.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 382 (4.66%) Onboarding
2 347 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 343 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 226 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 200 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 186 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 162 (1.98%) Fixed Income
8 157 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 153 (1.87%) Derivative
10 146 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 143 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 137 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 118 (1.44%) Equities
14 115 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 107 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 99 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 96 (1.17%) Public Cloud
18 92 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
19 86 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
20 81 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 283 (3.46%) Windows
2 254 (3.10%) Linux
3 131 (1.60%) Unix
4 63 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.45%) Solaris
6 36 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 31 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 31 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (0.34%) zOS
9 27 (0.33%) Android
10 20 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.085%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.073%) VMS
14 5 (0.061%) HPUX
14 5 (0.061%) SUSE
14 5 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.049%) MVS
15 4 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,738 (21.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,689 (20.63%) Agile
3 1,151 (14.06%) Migration
4 1,047 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
5 947 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 888 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 880 (10.75%) DevOps
8 853 (10.42%) AI
9 851 (10.39%) CI/CD
10 815 (9.95%) ERP
11 813 (9.93%) Analytics
12 732 (8.94%) Decision-Making
13 721 (8.80%) Project Management
14 689 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 685 (8.36%) Data Modelling
16 679 (8.29%) Validation
17 629 (7.68%) User Acceptance Testing
18 619 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
19 598 (7.30%) Change Management
20 529 (6.46%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,133 (13.84%) SQL
2 1,008 (12.31%) Python
3 563 (6.88%) Java
4 360 (4.40%) C#
5 240 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 237 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 190 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 81 (0.99%) C++
9 75 (0.92%) Bash
10 73 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 67 (0.82%) Go
11 67 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 55 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 53 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 43 (0.53%) Scala
15 42 (0.51%) VBA
16 32 (0.39%) Bicep
17 30 (0.37%) Apex Code
18 29 (0.35%) Rust
19 28 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 668 (8.16%) Degree
2 636 (7.77%) Security Cleared
3 456 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 212 (2.59%) ACCA
5 209 (2.55%) PMP
6 188 (2.30%) CIMA
7 176 (2.15%) PMI Certification
8 159 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 139 (1.70%) CISSP
10 127 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 87 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 81 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 80 (0.98%) CISM
14 75 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 61 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 43 (0.53%) AWS Certification
18 38 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 33 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 31 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 363 (4.43%) QA
3 304 (3.71%) PMO
4 284 (3.47%) GDPR
5 160 (1.95%) NIST
6 130 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 113 (1.38%) IFRS
8 96 (1.17%) SLA
9 88 (1.07%) GRC
9 88 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 77 (0.94%) Accessibility
11 63 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 61 (0.74%) GAAP
13 55 (0.67%) ISO 20022
14 35 (0.43%) NCSC
14 35 (0.43%) PSD2
14 35 (0.43%) SEPA
15 34 (0.42%) Solvency II
16 30 (0.37%) IFRS 17
17 27 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 261 (3.19%) Docker
2 169 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 51 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.34%) vSphere
5 21 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.15%) RACF
9 11 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 6 (0.073%) GPFS
11 6 (0.073%) KVM
12 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.037%) GridGain
14 3 (0.037%) SRDF
15 2 (0.024%) ACF2
15 2 (0.024%) HDFS
15 2 (0.024%) IAG
Systems Management
1 366 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 241 (2.94%) Terraform
3 132 (1.61%) Ansible
4 74 (0.90%) Grafana
5 66 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 48 (0.59%) SCCM
8 38 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.31%) Control-M
10 19 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.22%) vRealize
12 16 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
15 12 (0.15%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
16 11 (0.13%) CASB
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
17 10 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1,049 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 671 (8.19%) Oracle
3 652 (7.96%) SAP
4 288 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 249 (3.04%) Databricks
6 206 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 185 (2.26%) Google
8 122 (1.49%) Workday
9 109 (1.33%) VMware
10 104 (1.27%) Splunk
11 96 (1.17%) Cisco
12 93 (1.14%) IBM
13 91 (1.11%) CyberArk
14 63 (0.77%) Citrix
15 61 (0.74%) OpenAI
16 54 (0.66%) Sage
17 53 (0.65%) Ariba
17 53 (0.65%) Bloomberg
18 47 (0.57%) Informatica
19 46 (0.56%) Murex